Indigenous Research Methodologies

Second Edition
Indigenous Research Methodologies
November 2019 | 392 pages | Sage US
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Author Bagele Chilisa has revised and updated her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspectives--especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities--the second edition of Indigenous Research Methodologies situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context to make visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of social science research.

Chapters cover the history of research methods, ethical conduct, colonial and postcolonial epistemologies, relational epistemologies, emergent and indigenous methodologies, Afrocentric research, feminist research, narrative frameworks, interviewing, and participatory methods. New to the second edition are three new chapters covering evaluation, mixed methods, and mixed methods evaluation. These chapters focusing on decolonizing, indigenizing, and integrating these methods and applications to enhance participation of indigenous peoples as knowers and foster collaborative relationships.

Additional information on indigenous quantitative research reflects new developments in the field. New activities and web resources offer more depth and new ways for students to extend their knowledge. This textbook includes features such as key points, learning objectives, student exercises, chapter summaries, and suggested readings, making it an ideal textbook for graduate-level courses.




Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Chapter 1 • Situating Knowledge Systems

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Terminology in Postcolonial Indigenous Research Methodologies
  • Decolonization of Western Research Methodologies
  • Summary

Chapter 2 • Research Paradigms

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Contested Knowledge: Indigenous Perspectives or Paradigm?
  • A Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigm
  • Assumptions About the Nature of Reality, Knowledge, and Values
  • Methodology
  • Euro-Western Research Paradigms
  • Summary

Chapter 3 • Discovery and Recovery: Reading and Conducting Research Responsibly

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Postcolonial and Indigenous Theories
  • Researching Back: Methodological Imperialism
  • Postcolonial Theory and Language
  • Critical Race Theories
  • Summary

Chapter 4 • Whose Reality Counts? Research Methods in Question

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Colonizer/Colonized Dichotomies and the Ideology of the Other
  • Dismissing Indigenous Ways of Knowing
  • Research Ethics and the Legitimacy of Knowledge
  • Summary

Chapter 5 • Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigms

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Indigenous Knowledge and Research
  • Indigenizing Research Methodologies
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigms
  • Relational Ontology in Context: Perspectives From Africa
  • Relational Ontology: Perspectives From Scholars in Canada and Australia
  • Relational Epistemologies
  • Relational Axiology
  • Relational Axiology: Perspectives From North America and Canada
  • Summary

Chapter 6 • Decolonizing Evaluation

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Why Evaluation
  • Evaluation Discourse in a Global Context
  • Blind Reliance on Eurocentric Tools
  • The Shift in Evaluation Practice
  • The Made in Africa Evaluation Perspective: A Paradigmatic Lens
  • Decolonization Intent
  • Indigenous Multicultural Validity
  • Conducting an Indigenous Evaluation
  • Summary

Chapter 7 • Decolonizing Mixed Methods Research

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Toward the Meaning of MMR
  • Mixed Methods Designs and Rationales
  • Indigenous Mixed Methods Approaches
  • Summary

Chapter 8 • Indigenous Mixed Methods in Program Evaluation

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • The Indigenous Paradigmatic Lens
  • Embedding the Study in Global Knowledge
  • Summary

Chapter 9 • Theorizing on Social Science Research Methods: Indigenous Perspectives

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Methods Based on Ethnophilosophy
  • Storytelling Methods
  • In What Language Is the Story Told?
  • Summary

Chapter 10 • Culturally Responsive Indigenous Research Methodologies

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Regional, National, and Local Specific Methodologies
  • Paradigm, Methodology, and Methods
  • Validity and Reliability: An Overview
  • Rigor in Qualitative Research
  • Credibility
  • Validity: A Postcolonial Indigenous Framework
  • Accountability, Respectful Representation, Reciprocity, and Rights and Responsibilities
  • Kaupapa Maori Research Methodology
  • Ethical Issues in the Creative Relationship Framework
  • Cyclical Postcolonial Indigenous Research Methodologies: The Medicine Wheel
  • Pacific Research Methodologies
  • The Afrocentric Paradigm
  • Ethics That Underscore the Importance of Agreement and Consensus, Dialogue, and Particularity
  • Summary

Chapter 11 • Decolonizing the Interview Method

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • The Conventional Interview Method: An Overview
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Interview Methods
  • Indigenous Focus Group Interviews
  • Symbols in Postcolonial Indigenous Interview Methods
  • Conducting a Postcolonial Indigenous Interview
  • Summary

Chapter 12 • Participatory Research Methods

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Action Research: An Overview
  • Participatory Rural Appraisal
  • Other Methods
  • The Participatory Action Research Process
  • Summary

Chapter 13 • Postcolonial Indigenous Feminist Research Methodologies

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Feminist Theory and Research Methodologies
  • Western Feminisms
  • African Feminisms and Black Feminisms
  • Indigenous Feminist Participatory Methods in Practice
  • Summary

Chapter 14 • Building Partnerships and Integrating Knowledge Systems

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Postcolonial Indigenous and Social Justice Working Relationships
  • Cross-Cultural Partnership Research and Collaboration Between Academics and Donors
  • Planning Research From a Postcolonial Indigenous Research Perspective
  • Summary

References

References

Index

Index

Description

Author Bagele Chilisa has revised and updated her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspectives--especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities--the second edition of Indigenous Research Methodologies situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context to make visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of social science research.

Chapters cover the history of research methods, ethical conduct, colonial and postcolonial epistemologies, relational epistemologies, emergent and indigenous methodologies, Afrocentric research, feminist research, narrative frameworks, interviewing, and participatory methods. New to the second edition are three new chapters covering evaluation, mixed methods, and mixed methods evaluation. These chapters focusing on decolonizing, indigenizing, and integrating these methods and applications to enhance participation of indigenous peoples as knowers and foster collaborative relationships.

Additional information on indigenous quantitative research reflects new developments in the field. New activities and web resources offer more depth and new ways for students to extend their knowledge. This textbook includes features such as key points, learning objectives, student exercises, chapter summaries, and suggested readings, making it an ideal textbook for graduate-level courses.




Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Chapter 1 • Situating Knowledge Systems

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Terminology in Postcolonial Indigenous Research Methodologies
  • Decolonization of Western Research Methodologies
  • Summary

Chapter 2 • Research Paradigms

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Contested Knowledge: Indigenous Perspectives or Paradigm?
  • A Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigm
  • Assumptions About the Nature of Reality, Knowledge, and Values
  • Methodology
  • Euro-Western Research Paradigms
  • Summary

Chapter 3 • Discovery and Recovery: Reading and Conducting Research Responsibly

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Postcolonial and Indigenous Theories
  • Researching Back: Methodological Imperialism
  • Postcolonial Theory and Language
  • Critical Race Theories
  • Summary

Chapter 4 • Whose Reality Counts? Research Methods in Question

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Colonizer/Colonized Dichotomies and the Ideology of the Other
  • Dismissing Indigenous Ways of Knowing
  • Research Ethics and the Legitimacy of Knowledge
  • Summary

Chapter 5 • Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigms

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Indigenous Knowledge and Research
  • Indigenizing Research Methodologies
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigms
  • Relational Ontology in Context: Perspectives From Africa
  • Relational Ontology: Perspectives From Scholars in Canada and Australia
  • Relational Epistemologies
  • Relational Axiology
  • Relational Axiology: Perspectives From North America and Canada
  • Summary

Chapter 6 • Decolonizing Evaluation

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Why Evaluation
  • Evaluation Discourse in a Global Context
  • Blind Reliance on Eurocentric Tools
  • The Shift in Evaluation Practice
  • The Made in Africa Evaluation Perspective: A Paradigmatic Lens
  • Decolonization Intent
  • Indigenous Multicultural Validity
  • Conducting an Indigenous Evaluation
  • Summary

Chapter 7 • Decolonizing Mixed Methods Research

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Toward the Meaning of MMR
  • Mixed Methods Designs and Rationales
  • Indigenous Mixed Methods Approaches
  • Summary

Chapter 8 • Indigenous Mixed Methods in Program Evaluation

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • The Indigenous Paradigmatic Lens
  • Embedding the Study in Global Knowledge
  • Summary

Chapter 9 • Theorizing on Social Science Research Methods: Indigenous Perspectives

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Methods Based on Ethnophilosophy
  • Storytelling Methods
  • In What Language Is the Story Told?
  • Summary

Chapter 10 • Culturally Responsive Indigenous Research Methodologies

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Regional, National, and Local Specific Methodologies
  • Paradigm, Methodology, and Methods
  • Validity and Reliability: An Overview
  • Rigor in Qualitative Research
  • Credibility
  • Validity: A Postcolonial Indigenous Framework
  • Accountability, Respectful Representation, Reciprocity, and Rights and Responsibilities
  • Kaupapa Maori Research Methodology
  • Ethical Issues in the Creative Relationship Framework
  • Cyclical Postcolonial Indigenous Research Methodologies: The Medicine Wheel
  • Pacific Research Methodologies
  • The Afrocentric Paradigm
  • Ethics That Underscore the Importance of Agreement and Consensus, Dialogue, and Particularity
  • Summary

Chapter 11 • Decolonizing the Interview Method

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • The Conventional Interview Method: An Overview
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Interview Methods
  • Indigenous Focus Group Interviews
  • Symbols in Postcolonial Indigenous Interview Methods
  • Conducting a Postcolonial Indigenous Interview
  • Summary

Chapter 12 • Participatory Research Methods

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Action Research: An Overview
  • Participatory Rural Appraisal
  • Other Methods
  • The Participatory Action Research Process
  • Summary

Chapter 13 • Postcolonial Indigenous Feminist Research Methodologies

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Feminist Theory and Research Methodologies
  • Western Feminisms
  • African Feminisms and Black Feminisms
  • Indigenous Feminist Participatory Methods in Practice
  • Summary

Chapter 14 • Building Partnerships and Integrating Knowledge Systems

  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Postcolonial Indigenous and Social Justice Working Relationships
  • Cross-Cultural Partnership Research and Collaboration Between Academics and Donors
  • Planning Research From a Postcolonial Indigenous Research Perspective
  • Summary

References

References

Index

Index

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Indigenous Research Methodologies


November 2019 | 392 pages | Sage US

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Author Bagele Chilisa has revised and updated her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspectives--especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities--the second edition of Indigenous Research Methodologies situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context to make visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of social science research.

Chapters cover the history of research methods, ethical conduct, colonial and postcolonial epistemologies, relational epistemologies, emergent and indigenous methodologies, Afrocentric research, feminist research, narrative frameworks, interviewing, and participatory methods. New to the second edition are three new chapters covering evaluation, mixed methods, and mixed methods evaluation. These chapters focusing on decolonizing, indigenizing, and integrating these methods and applications to enhance participation of indigenous peoples as knowers and foster collaborative relationships.

Additional information on indigenous quantitative research reflects new developments in the field. New activities and web resources offer more depth and new ways for students to extend their knowledge. This textbook includes features such as key points, learning objectives, student exercises, chapter summaries, and suggested readings, making it an ideal textbook for graduate-level courses.





Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1 • Situating Knowledge Systems
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Terminology in Postcolonial Indigenous Research Methodologies
  • Decolonization of Western Research Methodologies
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2 • Research Paradigms
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Contested Knowledge: Indigenous Perspectives or Paradigm?
  • A Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigm
  • Assumptions About the Nature of Reality, Knowledge, and Values
  • Methodology
  • Euro-Western Research Paradigms
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3 • Discovery and Recovery: Reading and Conducting Research Responsibly
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Postcolonial and Indigenous Theories
  • Researching Back: Methodological Imperialism
  • Postcolonial Theory and Language
  • Critical Race Theories
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4 • Whose Reality Counts? Research Methods in Question
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Colonizer/Colonized Dichotomies and the Ideology of the Other
  • Dismissing Indigenous Ways of Knowing
  • Research Ethics and the Legitimacy of Knowledge
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5 • Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigms
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Indigenous Knowledge and Research
  • Indigenizing Research Methodologies
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Research Paradigms
  • Relational Ontology in Context: Perspectives From Africa
  • Relational Ontology: Perspectives From Scholars in Canada and Australia
  • Relational Epistemologies
  • Relational Axiology
  • Relational Axiology: Perspectives From North America and Canada
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6 • Decolonizing Evaluation
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Why Evaluation
  • Evaluation Discourse in a Global Context
  • Blind Reliance on Eurocentric Tools
  • The Shift in Evaluation Practice
  • The Made in Africa Evaluation Perspective: A Paradigmatic Lens
  • Decolonization Intent
  • Indigenous Multicultural Validity
  • Conducting an Indigenous Evaluation
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7 • Decolonizing Mixed Methods Research
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Toward the Meaning of MMR
  • Mixed Methods Designs and Rationales
  • Indigenous Mixed Methods Approaches
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8 • Indigenous Mixed Methods in Program Evaluation
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • The Indigenous Paradigmatic Lens
  • Embedding the Study in Global Knowledge
  • Summary
  • Chapter 9 • Theorizing on Social Science Research Methods: Indigenous Perspectives
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Methods Based on Ethnophilosophy
  • Storytelling Methods
  • In What Language Is the Story Told?
  • Summary
  • Chapter 10 • Culturally Responsive Indigenous Research Methodologies
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Regional, National, and Local Specific Methodologies
  • Paradigm, Methodology, and Methods
  • Validity and Reliability: An Overview
  • Rigor in Qualitative Research
  • Credibility
  • Validity: A Postcolonial Indigenous Framework
  • Accountability, Respectful Representation, Reciprocity, and Rights and Responsibilities
  • Kaupapa Maori Research Methodology
  • Ethical Issues in the Creative Relationship Framework
  • Cyclical Postcolonial Indigenous Research Methodologies: The Medicine Wheel
  • Pacific Research Methodologies
  • The Afrocentric Paradigm
  • Ethics That Underscore the Importance of Agreement and Consensus, Dialogue, and Particularity
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11 • Decolonizing the Interview Method
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • The Conventional Interview Method: An Overview
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Interview Methods
  • Indigenous Focus Group Interviews
  • Symbols in Postcolonial Indigenous Interview Methods
  • Conducting a Postcolonial Indigenous Interview
  • Summary
  • Chapter 12 • Participatory Research Methods
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Action Research: An Overview
  • Participatory Rural Appraisal
  • Other Methods
  • The Participatory Action Research Process
  • Summary
  • Chapter 13 • Postcolonial Indigenous Feminist Research Methodologies
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Introduction
  • Postcolonial Indigenous Feminist Theory and Research Methodologies
  • Western Feminisms
  • African Feminisms and Black Feminisms
  • Indigenous Feminist Participatory Methods in Practice
  • Summary
  • Chapter 14 • Building Partnerships and Integrating Knowledge Systems
  • Overview
  • Learning Objectives
  • Before You Start
  • Postcolonial Indigenous and Social Justice Working Relationships
  • Cross-Cultural Partnership Research and Collaboration Between Academics and Donors
  • Planning Research From a Postcolonial Indigenous Research Perspective
  • Summary
  • References
  • Index

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